Chapter 1

"Athaliah!" "What the heck, Elena! It's freaking midnight and I am trying to sleep here. Why would you dare to disturb my damn sleep?" Athaliah angrily growled in a sleepy tone at her best friend over the phone. Athaliah always loved her sleep more than anything in the world. Though the priority changed after Ryan came into her life but it was still her second priority. She always hated it whenever anyone messed up with her sleep. Moreover, today was a hectic day at the small office where she works at. Today they completed the very first big deal of the company and she being the desk worker she had to work a lot more than others. Though it's nothing new for her. She had worked ten folds more than this when she was handling her business. It's just she was out of practice now. So she was really tired but her best friend just decided to disturb her much needed precious sleep at 1 in the morning? Wait a minute... Slowly Athaliah started to come back to her senses completely and tried

"Ladies and gentlemen! I welcome you here in the auction of.. the Williams corporation." Steven said that with a heavy heart but he was quick to compose his inner feelings and continued with the speech.   "I, Steven Williams, is the founder of the Williams corporation. I started this journey from scratch with nothing. It's not like I had nothing, I decided to have nothing when I started this journey. I have dreamt of this since I was born maybe." He chuckled a little. "My work, my dream and my journey was my first love. I fell in love so hard with them that my only motto was to give them a comfortable life if that makes sense. My father had told me before I started this, 'Son, fall in love with your work in return success will fall in love with you.' And that's exactly what happened to me. But my father also told me one more thing, 'Son, no matter how high you rise, never forget your roots.' And that's exactly what I did. I always kept my feet down and never let

"HOW!? How could you do this to us!? You never thought of us for once while doing so? We didn't think that your parents would shatter upon hearing this? Where did we lack in loving you? Why did you do this to us? When did you become so selfish?" Sophia exclaimed angrily to her daughter, who was looking down, ashamed.    It was the first time Athaliah got slapped and she never thought that she would be getting slapped by her sweet mother. Well, it's not like she left her a choice. So she accepted it without making any sound.   Though it's not like she was wrong, one thing she knew is that she wronged her family. There is no denying that. Her family did everything as per her wish. Never did they deny her for anything. That made her more stubborn and arrogant but she never crossed her limits. But this time her adamant behaviour affected her family in many ways. But she was way too broken that time to think straight.  

“Mumma? Who is she? Why did she call you mummy?” Ryan innocently asked his mother who still didn’t come out of the shock of seeing her ex-husband with a child around their child’s age.   Aaron’s eyes widened listening to that little boy addressing the mother of his child as his mother. At that time the only thing that came to his mind is this child was the reason she left him and his daughter. But why was his heart unable to believe that? Why was he feeling a weird pull toward him?   Whereas Athaliah wasn’t in a different condition. She couldn’t come to any conclusion on who this child was and what she was doing with Aaron. Is she the one for whom he left her and her son? she thought. And did she just call her mummy?   She still couldn’t come out of the shock when that little girl wiggled out of Aaron’s hold and ran toward her at full speed. Seems like Aaron was also equally in shock and that’s why he didn’t notice when